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A/N: I was running out of disclaimer ideas....Anyway, this episode doesn't start right where the last one left off. The title says it all, though.
Episode 9: The Morning After
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Azure opened his eyes wearily, hearing a knock on his bedroom door.
Wake up, onii-chan! His sister. She was the only one who would wake him up this early on break, he thought, right after staring at his clock, which read seven AM. It was unusually dark for that time though. He looked out the window to see that it was raining outside, quite heavily at that, the clouds nearly black, yet almost a purple color. The wind was blowing incredibly strongly, and every few seconds a tree branch would smack into the side of the house. He thought he saw something else, and got out of bed, walking casually over to the window and peering out into the rain, seeing that mixed in with the drops of water was...
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After knocking on her brother's door and hearing him awaken, Sera skipped lightly down the hallway. She was in a good mood, for she had had a rather marvelous, if somewhat scary near the end, dream the previous night, and was eager to tell someone about it. Reaching the stairs, she spotted the cat.
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Azure sat down on his bed, and wondered about the dream he had had the night before. At least, he thought it was a dream. He figured he should tell his parents about it, but he knew they must still be sleeping. Azure put on the pair of house slippers by his bed and trotted sleepily over to the door. He had already heard his sister skip down the hallway, so he knew she wouldn't be on the other side of the door.Nothing else to do on this morning of rather strange weather, he walked down the hallway, and looked down the stairs to see his sister holding the cat and talking to it giddily. The cat, however, had a rather sour look on its face, and didn't seem interested in the least. It seemed to keep trying to escape, but Sera had a rather firm grip on it. Azure, on the other hand, was interested, after he heard what his sister was saying.
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And then, we went into this room with some weird name on it. I don't know where I could've heard it, probably on TV somewhere. So we went in, and the room was filled with weird clothes, and shelves of videos, and there was a shelf full of cameras in one corner. Then we left that room and there was another one, and this one belonged to tou-san. We went in and onii-chan was getting all sour about what we had found in the last room, and in this room there was a bunch of magical stuff, and a great robe. I wonder where I thought up the design for that? Kaa-san says I have a really good imagination, but some of the things in this dream were just too weird. The next room belonged to kaa-san, and there wasn't much in it, just a bunch of books and pictures of strange people, but oh! There was this one really kawaii little bear! And then onii-chan said he felt something else, and he walked up to a wall, and the wall dragged him into it! Then a hand came out of the wall and dragged me in too! That part was scary! But then I found out the hand was actually onii-chan's, but I'd expect him to do something like that, even in a dream, and on the other side of the wall was..
Kero just sighed dejectedly, unable to escape from Sera's grasp.
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Azure leaned against the wall, a worried expression on his face. She had had the same dream as him. He remembered his parents talking about such an occurrence during one of their magical lessons. When two closely-related magical people had the exact same dream on the same night, it usually meant the dreams were predicting the future. He sent out his magical sense to see if he felt anything in the area that their shared dream had taken place, and almost fell down the stairs. Almost every where he looked there were magical emanations! The walls, the floor, the stairs, his clothing, her clothing,the doors, the weather outside...all of it had a magical aura about it!
But this wasn't the same as the auras he normally felt...it was just slightly different. It felt as if they all had the same aura, yet all sent out that aura in a different way, like radio frequencies. They all had the same modulation, but all on different channels. But that was impossible, everything that had an aura had to have a different one than all the others. His sense must be off, he told himself; he had just gotten up, he must not be awake enough for it to work, he thought; that had to be it, this couldn't really be happening...
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...and onii-chan was still being mean and I was scared even though kaa-san and tou-san were there, and then Azure said something, and this big light filled the room, and it started to get really windy, and all those cards flew out of the book, and Azure grabbed one, and then the book disappeared too, and then the wind stopped, and onii-chan looked at me......and then the dream stopped....it was really strange neko, ne?
Kero meowed loudly, and she finally put him down.
What's that, neko? You're hungry? Well, I am too. Let's go have breakfast! And with that, Sera skipped own the hallway to the kitchen, looking around to decide what to eat, Kero following closely behind her, hoping to get a treat for listening to that tedious recounting of the little girl's ...
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Sakura lay in bed, quite worried. She turned to Syaoran; both them had been awake for the past hour, discussing what to do about this catastrophe.
I guess there's nothing we can do about it...most of them won't listen to me, and the key won't respond; I can't reseal them.
Azure's the one who opened the book, meaning it's up to him this time...
So when should we tell them?
Give them a few more hours. They won't get worried as long as it's just a dream'... Sakura rolled over and closed her eyes, feeling her love's arms close around her, knowing his eyes closed like her. They needed a few more hours as well....
